For their politics they were put in prison. Some died, some were released, and some are still there. But when others looked out from the same prison bars and saw mud, they saw stars. From a Korean dissident to a nuclear scientist, via Vaclav Havel, we look at some of the world's most famous political prisoners.
PRAGUE (AP) Dana Nemcova, one of the leading Czech dissidents and human rights activists from the communist era, has died. She was 89. She died on Tuesday morning, according to the Olga Havel Foundation, a charitable organization with which she was associated for many years. No details about the cause of death were given. […]